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31. Harley MS 3652

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3652
Title:
English statutes; Registrum Cancellarie; Registrum brevium
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains collections of English statutes and laws until the reign of Richard II, written in Latin and French, including statutes for Westminster, Exeter and Winchester (ff. 1r-29r), and a chancery register (ff. 30r-54r). Contents: ff. 1r-12v: 'Statutum Westmonasterii secundum'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

32. Harley MS 4185

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4185
Title:
Lazare François Dagobert, Collection of poems in praise of Charles II
Scope & Content:
This manuscript is an autograph copy of a collection of poems written in praise of King Charles II (r. 1660–1685). The volume was written and decorated by Lazare François Dagobert, a French writing master who was journeying in England at the time of its composition. Dagobert produced a similar c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
October 1683
Extent:
1 volume

33. Harley MS 4605

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4605
Title:
Christine de Pizan, Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie
Scope & Content:
Contents: f. 2r-v: Table of contents to Le livre des faits d'armes et de chevalerie, with a rubric beginning, 'Cy commence la table des rubriches du livre des fais darmes & de chevalerie le quel dit livre est parti en quatre parties' (f. 2r); the main text beginning, 'La premiere partie de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1434
Extent:

1 volume

34. Harley MS 4640

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4640
Title:
Two copies of an indenture with the last will of Hugh Denys of Osterley
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains two identical copies executed by the same scribe and decorated by the same illuminator an indenture that was made in 1529/1530 for the execution of the last will of Hugh Denys of Osterley (b. c. 1440, d. 1511), a courtier of King Henry VII and King Henry VIII. In his wil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1529-1530
Extent:

1 volume

35. Harley MS 4775

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4775
Title:
Gilte Legende (Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the so-called Gilte Legende. This is a complete Middle English prose translation of the Legenda Aurea: a Latin collection of almost 200 saints' lives compiled by the French Dominican chronicler Jacobus de Voragine [Jean de Vignay] (b. c. 1230, d. 1298), and completed aro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, English, Middle, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

36. Harley MS 6085

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6085
Title:
William Segar, Book of royal arms, badges and achievements from Brutus to James I
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-25r: William Segar, 'The Variation of the Armes, and Badges of the Kings of England, from the tyme of Brute, untill this present Yeare of our Lord, 1604'; beginning with an address by William Segar to King James I; containing drawings and English descriptions with blazons in La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1604
Extent:
1 volume

37. Harley MS 6485

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6485
Title:
The Rosie Crucian Secrets, attributed to John Dee
Scope & Content:
The manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the alchemical treatise The Rosie Crucian Secrets, divided into three parts and attributed here to John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609), mathematician and astrologer: each quire of 4 folios contains an inscription 'the first [second, etc] sheet Dr Dee.' ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1713
Extent:
1 volume

38. Harley MS 7398/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7398/2
Title:
Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar, imperfect
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 132r-359r: Breviary, Use of Sarum, with a Calendar (ff. 145r-150v), imperfect. The Calendar has various later 15th-century additions, including the feast days of Sts Cadoc, Anasasia, Cyriac and Julitta, Desiderius, Etheldreda, Louis of France, Mathurin of Larchant, Osmund and his ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

39. Harley MS 7626

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 7626
Title:
The Endowment and Orders of Walter Sherington’s Chantry, founded in St Paul’s Church, London
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-12v: The Endowment and Orders of Walter Sherington’s Chantry, founded in St Paul’s Church, London; the chantry of Walter Sherington (b. 1431, d. 1442), chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, was founded by his executors for two chaplains to pray for his soul and for the good es...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1457-c 1500
Extent:
1 volume

40. IOR/X/14755

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/14755
Title:
'Stanford's Library map of London and its Suburbs' published by Harry Margary
Scope & Content:
A reproduction of Stanford's 1862 Library Map of London and its Suburbs at a scale of 6 inches to a mile. Published by Harry Margary, Lympne Castle, Kent, with Introductory Notes by Ralph Hyde, Keeper of Prints and Maps at the Guildhall Library. Ralph Hyde's notes cover: Edward Stanford's London,...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1980
Extent:
28 sheets

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